GERMANY: Communist Enterprise

One day last week the U.S. took the sternest
measures yet against the German "cigaret economy." Washington banned
private shipments of American cigarets, indicated that U.S. personnel
in Germany would get only enough for themselves. Black marketeers
moaned. Said one, hopefully: "Clever American people will find a way to
beat the law." But by week's end it was the clever Russians who were
showing most of the enterprise. Four days after Washington's dictum,
millions of American-looking Russian cigarets were flooding Berlin at
2½ marks apiecehalf the price of U.S. cigarets.